Using AI To Take Meeting Minutes
Lance Cummings, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, provides guidance for using AI to summarize meetings. Students might find his tips useful for team and club meetings and in the workplace.
Lance’s blog is a treasure trove of AI guidance, and this recent post is particularly useful for saving time and allowing the facilitator/host to listen more attentively during meetings. If you know Lance’s work, you know he encourages prompts that include task, context, and content criteria.
For meeting notes, he suggests providing AI with the agenda, notes, and the transcript. He highlights content during the meeting (he calls them “breadcrumbs”) for AI to improve the output. For example, you might say, “That’s an important point. Let me repeat it.”
Read more, including his full prompt that defines the audience and other expectations.